Beatrice Capestany
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My academic background...

I spent a long time doing research in an academic setting. My interest in human behavior research started in College with a summer internship in a cognitive neuroscience lab. Upon graduation, I received a post-bac fellowship with the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University to work in a social neuroscience lab. After two years doing fMRI research, I became a graduate student in the Psychology & Neuroscience department at Duke. Then I did a post-doc at Duke's Initiative for Science & Society. That's EIGHT years of academic research!

Those eight years have been instrumental in shaping my passion for research on human behavior. I'm also proud of my accomplishments as a grad student...because, if you don't know, grad school can be a long and stressful process.

So, here is my academic background, summed up by Research and Leadership experiences.

RESEARCH

I was involved in research that allowed me to explore cutting-edge topics, including the psychology of legal decisions, virtual reality, and consumer neurotechnology. I got hands-on experience conducting brain imaging studies (using fMRI), quantitative studies (i.e. surveys and behavioral experiments), and qualitative studies.

Below are some of my academic publications:

Farahany, N. A., Greely, H. T., et al. (including Capestany, B. H .). (2018). The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue. Nature, 556, 429-432.

Harris, L. T., Capestany, B. H ., & Tan, J. (2016). How next generation neuroscience technologies can facilitate comparison across cultural contexts and species: Implications for global health. In: J. Chiao, S-C. Li, R. Seligman, & R. Turner (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience . Oxford University Press.

Capestany, B. H., & Harris, L. T. (2015). Stereotype content, in: Emerging Trends in the Social & Behavioral Sciences ( eds. ) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons .

Capestany, B. H ., & Harris, L. T. (2014). Disgust and biological descriptions bias logical reasoning during legal decision-making. Social neuroscience , 1-13.

Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., Capestany, B. H ., & Cohen, A. O. Assigning economic value to people results in dehumanization brain response (2014). Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, & Economics , 7 , 151-163.

Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., & Capestany, B. H . (2014). The cognitive neuroscience of person perception. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th edition (eds.) Michael S. Gazzinage & George R. Mangun, London, Englad: The MIT Press.

LEADERSHIP

I've engaged with all kinds of people during the course of my PhD and as a post-doc. I've worked in teams and independently, and have received awards and fellowships for my leadership and teaching outreach.

For example, I received a Certificate for College Teaching from Duke University, and the Bass Undergraduate Instructional Program Award, funded by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowment Fund. I was also part of the Emerging Leaders Institute at Duke University. You can read about my experience here . And I'm happy to be part of the Neuroethics Women Leaders Network .

I've had the opportunity to present my research outside of the academic community to a diverse group of people, including high school students, lawyers and judges at their continuing legal education sessions, business executives, and industry leaders.

Below you'll find a list of my teaching and speaking experiences:
  • Speaker at Banbury Center conference on the Evolving Phenomenon of Direct-to-Consumer Neuroscience [2018]
  • Speaker at the Frank Dunham Federal Defense Conference [2017]
  • Guest lecturer for a high school neuroscience summer bootcamp. Gave talk titled "Neuroscience in the criminal courtroom."  [2016 and 2017 sessions]
  • Speaker at the Center for American and International Law's The Mind and Criminal Defense Program [2016]
  • Guest speaker at the Center for American and International Law's The Mind and Criminal Defense Program [2016]
  • PSY490: Psychology of Justice ( course eval , written eval ) [instructor of record, 2016]
  • PSY101: Introduction to Psychology ( course eval , written eval ) [instructor of record, 2015]
  • Guest lecturer for a Cognitive Psychology course. Gave talk titled "Legal decision making in the brain." [2015]
  • Graduate mentor for Duke's Winter Forum "To Catch a Killer: Investigating the Brain"  [2015]
  • PSY212: Forensic Psychology [teaching assistant, 2015]
  • Tutor for the Duke Athletics Department [2014-2015]
  • Fuqua Business Course: Managerial Effectiveness: Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations for Business Executives [teaching assistant, 2014]
  • Guest lecturer for a Social Psychology course. Gave talk titled "Management and Leadership." [2014]
  • PSY104: Social Psychology [teaching assistant, 2014]
  • PSY101: Introduction to Psychology [taught lab sections, 2013]
  • PSY201: Introduction to Statistics [taught lab sections, 2013]
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